In today's post, I will present a general theory of liberalism and conservatism that incorporates modern social science research. I will begin with examples of liberal and conservative attitudes in ...

Many of the cornerstones of the postwar liberal order are being shattered. The focus of Donald Trump’s second presidency has ...

Meditating on the first and most simple operations of the human soul, I believe that I perceive in it two principles that are prior to reason, of which one makes us ardently interested in our ...

Seven months into the second Trump administration, the future of American liberalism is still opaque. I can identify movements contending for influence — the Trump-focused neo-resistance politics of ...

Boston Review recently hosted a virtual roundtable featuring contributors to a new collection of essays, Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s, published by University of ...

A study published in The British Journal of Sociology, meanwhile, suggested a less direct link, reporting that higher education has only "a small direct causal effect on British individuals' adult ...

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